Mestre Marçal — Os Sertões song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Os Sertões" by Mestre Marçal.
Lyrics
Marcado pela própria natureza
O Nordeste do meu Brasil
Oh! solitário sertão
De sofrimento e solidão
A terra e seca
Mal se pode cultivar
Morrem as plantas e foge o ar
A vida e triste nesse lugar
Sertanejo e forte
Supera miséria sem fim
Sertanejo homem forte
Dizia o Poeta assim
Foi no século passado
No interior da Bahia
O Homem revoltado com a sorte
Do mundo em que vivia
Ocultou-se no sertão
Espalhando a rebeldia
Se revoltando contra a lei
Que a sociedade oferecia
Os Jagunços lutaram
Ate o final
Defendendo canudos
Naquela guerra fatal
Lyrics translation
Marked by nature itself
The northeast of my Brazil
Oh! lonely backcountry
Of suffering and loneliness
The Earth and dry
Can barely grow
The plants die and the air runs away
Life is sad in this place
Sertanejo and forte
Overcomes endless misery
Sertanejo strong man
The poet said so
It was in the last century
In the interior of Bahia
The angry man with luck
From the world I lived in
He hid in the backcountry
Spreading rebellion
Rebelling against the law
That society offered
The Jagunces fought
Until the end
Defending straws
In that fatal war